How can I get the current class of a div with jQuery?

Question

Using jQuery, how can I get the current class of a div called div1?

Answer 1

Just get the class attribute:

var div1Class = $('#div1').attr('class'); 

Example

<div id="div1" class="accordion accordion_active"> 

To check the above div for classes contained in it

var a = ("#div1").attr('class');  console.log(a); 

console output

accordion accordion_active 

Answer 2

Simply by

var divClass = $("#div1").attr("class") 

You can do some other stuff to manipulate element's class

$("#div1").addClass("foo"); // add class 'foo' to div1 $("#div1").removeClass("foo"); // remove class 'foo' from div1 $("#div1").toggleClass("foo"); // toggle class 'foo'